Key general books

Key general books

Carolyn Marr Digging Deep, Down to Earth and Minewatch, special report no 2, 1993

Roger Moody The Gulliver File, Minewatch, WISE Glen Aplin, International Books, 1993

[the classic - never imitated, never bettered!]

MJ Books Mining and the Environment – The Berlin Guidelines, London 1992, reprinted 1995. [With the exception of various documents produced by the International Council for Metals and the Environment - not featured in this list - this book is so far the only serious attempt by the industry to address its endemic global "problems".]

Alyson Warhurst Environmental Degradation from Mining and Mineral Processing in Developing Countries: Corporate Responses and National Policies, Development Centre of the OECD, Paris 1994

The Dictionary of Earth Sciences, Claremont Books and Collins London 1995 [Admirably small pocket-size dictionary]

J Kourimsy TheIllustrated Encyclopedia of Minerals and Rocks, Aventinum, Prague 1997, reprinted 1991, London [Just what it says: with nearly 600 illustrations of virtually every conceivable mineral, many in colour]

Billiton and Non-Ferrous Metals/Billiton Handbook [Respectively very simple and concise, and lengthier, introductions to mining, metals and the industry, by one of the world's biggest mining companies.]

Craig Andrews Mineral Sector Technologies: Policy implications for Developing Countries, World Bank, 1997

R M Auty Sustaining Development in Mineral Economies: The Resource Curse Thesis, Routledge, London 1993

ECOSOC (Asia-Pacific) and UNDP Mineral Investment Conditions in Selected Countries of the Asia-Pacific Region, New York 1992

(Eds) Abdel-Fatau Musah and J 'Kayode Fayemi MERCENARIES: An African Security Dilemma, Centre for Democracy and Development and Pluto Press, London 2000 [Not just Africa - Papua New Guinea/Bougainville is documented too. The most up to date and probably the best publication yet on mercenaries and mining, among other things.]